Acknowledgements
Introduction: an anthropology of separation
1. Two festival of reunion
2. The etiquette of parting and return
3. Greeting and sending-off the dead
4. The ambivalent threshold
5. Commensality as reunion
6. Women and the obligation to return
7. Developing a sense of history
8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion
9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan
Conclusion: the separation constraint
Notes
References
Index.